The College of Emergency Medicine
Wound assessment and management:
- Know how to assess a wound in terms of mechanism of injury, underlying structures, and complications
- Know of special types of wound: puncture, bites, amputation, de-gloving, and presence of foreign bodies
- Know different wound closure techniques
Wound management:
- The trainee will be able to assess the patient with increasing complex wounds, providing analgesia, wound exploration, identification of damaged underlying structures, repair where appropriate and closure
Major Trauma:
- The trainee will be able to lead a trauma team in the assessment of the trauma victim using a systematic prioritised approach, identify and treat life-threatening conditions and arrange appropriate investigations for further management
Major trauma - Chest Injuries:
- The trainee will be able to evaluate the patient who presents with major trauma and to identify and treat the life-threatening presentations, to produce a valid differential diagnosis, appropriate investigation and implement a management plan. The trainee builds on previous training with more detailed knowledge, skills and behaviours
Major trauma - Abdominal trauma:
- The trainee will be able to evaluate the patient who presents with major trauma and to identify and treat the life-threatening presentations, to produce a valid differential diagnosis, appropriate investigation and implement a management plan.
- Know the different presentations of blunt and penetrating abdominal trauma and the structures that may be damaged,
Specifically, blunt splenic, hepatic, renal, pancreatic trauma, hollow viscus injury, urethral/bladder and testicular trauma
Traumatic limb and joint injuries:
- Know when to seek senior advice in the management of limb and joint trauma
Bruising and spontaneous bleeding:
- The trainee will be able to evaluate the patient who presents with bruising or spontaneous bleeding and produce a valid differential diagnosis, appropriate investigation, and implement a management plan
